Which Italian poet won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature for lyrical intensity?

Salvatore Quasimodo won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959 for his lyrical poetry, which expressed the tragic experience of life in modern times.

Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator associated with hermetic poetry, a style known for compressed language, symbolism, and difficulty of interpretation. His early poems often used spare, intensely concentrated imagery.

The Second World War changed the direction of his writing. His later poetry became more direct and engaged with violence, suffering, moral responsibility, and the human consequences of history.

Quasimodo is sometimes confused with Eugenio Montale, another major Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. Both were central figures in twentieth-century Italian poetry.